rawhide report: 20080118 changes

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 00:28:15 UTC 2008


Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 18:49 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Build System wrote:
>>
>>> New package preload
>>> 	Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon
>> Heey, we talk around this things incarnation over at Novell and it turns 
>> out we have a thing boiling in BZ since october.
>>
>> The sheer size of the Fedora community makes it possible to miss such 
>> things, and that's good news! Now, some preload-testing.
>>
>> Linus
>>
> 
> It was created by Behdad and surprisingly has been highly recommended in
> Ubuntu/Debian for awhile.  Surprisingly that it didn't get into Fedora
> till now.

There was a prior work called simply 'readahead' which was in Fedora and removed 
due to making almost no real difference.  Hopefully the newer incarnation is 
effective.

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